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Webster 1913 Edition


Myeloidin

Myˊe-loid′in

,
Noun.
[
Myelin
+
-oid
+
-in
.]
(Physiol. Chem.)
A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers.